Word: dimitry
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Opera's new director, Joseph Rosenstock, wanted to make a splash with his first new production. He picked just the right high-diving opera to do it with: Alban Berg's 27-year-old atonal masterpiece, Wozzeck. Ever since Dimitri Mitropoulos' stunning concert version in Carnegie Hall last year (TIME. April 23), critics and audiences have been clamoring to see a stage version...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos; soloist: Pianist Robert Casadesus...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pianist Oscar Levant...
...Dimitri Mitropoulos...
...wrote some songs, and one of them, sung by Marian Anderson, finally got his name on a Carnegie Hall program. Among his other compositions he wrote two symphonies, and last season one of them brought him further recognition. Dimitri Mitropoulos, a conductor always on the lookout for new works for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, studied the score of Swanson's Short Symphony (his second), gave it a first performance in Carnegie Hall, and later included it in his Edinburgh Festival program. It was rich in melody and vigorous in rhythm, pleasing if not musically adventurous...